Political Quotes

“we have had a fruitful day here today. We passed a lot of bills. We did it in a bipartisan way. I want to thank both Leader McConnell and Leader Schumer for their good work, as well as Chairman Shelby and Ranking Member Leahy for their good work on these bills. Today, I am going to do something that I have never done before. I am going to read an obituary about a man I don't believe I have ever met, even though I was in the Veterans' Home of Columbia Falls while he was there. This obituary was passed on to me by my wife, who got it from a friend. It is incredibly powerful because, quite frankly, it is about one man, but it is actually about a generation of men and women who served in Vietnam. This guy's name was William Ebeltoft. The obituary goes like this: ``Not everyone who lost his life in Vietnam died there.'' The saying is true for CW2 William C. Ebeltoft. He died on December 15, 2019 at the Veteran's Home in Columbia Falls, Montana. He died 50 years after he lost, in Vietnam, all that underpinned his life. He was 73 years old. Everyone called him ``Bill.'' He was loved by the nursing staff who cared for him. He was loved by the fellow veterans with whom he lived; those he helped when he was able and entertained with funny German slang and a stint at the piano when he could. He was a virtuoso when playing ``Waltzing Matilda.'' His small family loved him dearly.…”